Amalia of Oldenburg

Amalia of Oldenburg (21 December 1818-20 May 1875) was the Queen of Greece from 1836 to 1862, the wife of King Otto I of Greece. Originally a German noblewoman, she invented the "Amalia Dress" that is currently still popular in Greece. Amalia of Oldenburg also introduced the Christmas Tree to Greece.

Biography
Amalia was the daughter of August I of Oldenburg and Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, born in Oldenburg in 1818. In 1836 she married King Otto I of Greece at the age of 18, and was famous for her beauty and vivaciousness. She introduced the Christmas tree to Greece, and she won the hearts of many Greeks.

Amalia of Oldenburg soon joined politics as the pressure increased on her husband and she became the target of attacks of hate due to her failure to produce a male heir to the Greek throne. As pressure mounted, she was targeted in an assassination attempt by a university student named Aristeidis Dosios in 1861.

In 1862 Amalia was exiled along with her husband, and she lived in Bavaria with him. Between 6:00 PM and 8:00 PM the two would speak Greek to each other to remember their terms as King and Queen of Greece. She outlived her husband by eight years, with Otto dying in 1867 and Amalia dying in 1875.